NEW DELHI: With over 1.82 crore shares changing hands, Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) emerged as the most traded stock on NSE early Tuesday.It was followed by Reliance Communications (number of shares traded: 0.92 crore), Adani Enterprises (0.61 crore), GMR Infrastructure (0.38 crore), Idea Cellular (0.35 crore), Bank of Baroda (0.33 crore), Federal Bank (0.30 crore), Punjab National Bank (0.27 crore), Tata Motors (0.26 crore) and HDIL (0.21 crore) too featured among the most traded stocks on NSE.On the other hand, Adani Enterprises (Rs 134.35 crore) was leading the pack of most active stock in terms of value on NSE.HCL Technologies (Rs 93.83 crore), Larsen Toubro (LT) (Rs 89.53 crore), Tech Mahindra (Rs 87.16 crore), RIL (Rs 81.28 crore), Tata Motors (Rs 70.05 crore), Infosys (Rs 68.33 crore), Tata Steel (Rs 62.24 crore), ITC (Rs 60.79 crore) and YES Bank (Rs 56.41 crore) were the other stocks in the league of most active in value terms.
Domestic equity market opened in the green but turned flat soon amid mixed Asian cues.
Recent outperformers, including Reliance Industries, State Bank of India and Larsen Toubro, lost steam.In the Nifty index, 23 stocks were in the green and 27 in the red.
The NSE Nifty index was trading 5 points up at 11,557.3, while the BSE Sensex was down 5 points at 38,274.19 around 09:30 am.Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, Eicher Motors, GAIL (India) and Coal India were among the top gainers, while Bharti Airtel, Vedanta, ICICI Bank, Sun Pharma and ONGC were among the top losers in the Nifty index.